Law&Order:SVU, or How Ice-T trolled Gamergate -

[TaterBot]

Six months ago, Law & Order:SVU aired an episode, "The Intimidation Game", exploring the dangers of being a woman in the gaming community.

Spoiler

"Law & Order: SVU" will air an episode inspired by GamerGate. As first pointed out by The Mary Sue, the show's Feb. 11 installment, “The Intimidation Game,” will explore the dangerous side of being a woman in the gaming community.

The episode, according to TV Guide, focuses on a woman who "launches a video game amid death threats in the male-dominated gaming community, but a crime scene unfurls at a big video-game convention when one of her female employees is assaulted."

GamerGate is a movement that rose to public attention in 2014. It claims to call for better ethics in gaming journalism, but in practice carries out gender-specific abuse." --- From HuffPost TV

Old stuff, right. But wait, there's more drama to explore. ain't there always?

This week one of the show's stars Ice-T got into a tweety fight with gamers when he attempted to school no-opinion celebrities who he said "won't stand their ground in pursuit of popularity" and got this response:

MundaneMatt @mundanematt
Did you stand your ground on SVU’s #GamerGate ep? Or did you just read about it on kotaku?
10:05 AM - 27 Aug 2015

Ice_T replied:
ICE T ✔@FINALLEVEL
What is GamerGate?
10:12 AM - 27 Aug 2015

Explanations rolled in, and Ice-T sloughed on, apparently unaware of what he'd just stepped in. He tried various tactics, even tried to make it about himself and his own "persecution", but eventually he gave up and resorted to
this exchange

Old guy, ex-rapper, is cool guy ...ironically speaking. Or is he still on top of the game?

 

[AnOminous]

I thought it was pretty reasonable response to being besieged by a mob of autists on Twitter about shit nobody in their right mind cares about.

 

[waffle]

Yeah, I agree, the Ice Man's response is pretty reasonable at the end of the day.

 

[MarineTrainedTard]

I fucking love Ice-T. I also liked that episode because I knew both pro and anti GG would fucking lose their shit over it. Turns out they did not disappoint.

 

[Watcher]

Law and Order SVU is a show that is largely watched by people out of tradition and not really because it's any good.

Most fans of the series agree that after Christopher Meloni jumped ship the show had a noticeable dip in quality that it hasn't recovered from. It's unsurprising they resorted to this to get attention but aging shows like L&O have a history of pulling stunts like this. (Like the furries episode CSI did). These shows have to struggle to stay relevant and accessible to their aging 40-50 year old demographic.

 

[SeattleFaerie]

Six months ago, Law & Order:SVU aired an episode, "The Intimidation Game", exploring the dangers of being a woman in the gaming community.

Spoiler

"Law & Order: SVU" will air an episode inspired by GamerGate. As first pointed out by The Mary Sue, the show's Feb. 11 installment, “The Intimidation Game,” will explore the dangerous side of being a woman in the gaming community.

The episode, according to TV Guide, focuses on a woman who "launches a video game amid death threats in the male-dominated gaming community, but a crime scene unfurls at a big video-game convention when one of her female employees is assaulted."

GamerGate is a movement that rose to public attention in 2014. It claims to call for better ethics in gaming journalism, but in practice carries out gender-specific abuse." --- From HuffPost TV

Old stuff, right. But wait, there's more drama to explore. ain't there always?

This week one of the show's stars Ice-T got into a tweety fight with gamers when he attempted to school no-opinion celebrities who he said "won't stand their ground in pursuit of popularity" and got this response:

MundaneMatt @mundanematt
Did you stand your ground on SVU’s #GamerGate ep? Or did you just read about it on kotaku?
10:05 AM - 27 Aug 2015

Ice_T replied:
ICE T ✔@FINALLEVEL
What is GamerGate?
10:12 AM - 27 Aug 2015

Explanations rolled in, and Ice-T sloughed on, apparently unaware of what he'd just stepped in. He tried various tactics, even tried to make it about himself and his own "persecution", but eventually he gave up and resorted to
this exchange

Old guy, ex-rapper, is cool guy ...ironically speaking. Or is he still on top of the game?

And then the author of that article had to give this 'rundown' of the episode:

In the season 16 episode, Ice-T’s character Fin Tutuola reveals to his fellow officers that he’s a hardcore gamer, mostly so he can then conveniently mansplain acronyms like FAL, KOBS, and FPS to the department’s lady cops.

The article is on his side in this and yet she insults Ice-T as a man, all while ignoring that in the episode, he explained those things to everyone except one other cop who also happened to be male.

But you know what, what happened with Ice-T doesn't matter as much when you look at the whole episode and a variety of issues with it not related to Gamergate. The main issue is the female developer Raina Punjabi, who's name alone is racist but who is supposed to be based on people like Anita and Zoe yet is their completely opposite.

 

[AnOminous]

And then the author of that article had to give this 'rundown' of the episode:

The article is on his side in this and yet she insults Ice-T as a man, all while ignoring that in the episode, he explained those things to everyone except one other cop who also happened to be male.

Another moronic use of "mansplain." It isn't explaining something you happen to know about. The word is now completely useless and should be discarded.

I think the most autistic thing about the Twitter mob swarming Ice-T about this episode was the fact that an alarming number of them seemed unaware that (at least on SVU) he's an actor whose job it is to speak words written by other people. He isn't actually a cop and the show isn't real.

It's not like he said this shit as his personal opinion while on a talk show. He said it as part of the script someone else wrote. The whole L&O franchise (which needs to be put out of its misery) has had dozens, maybe hundreds, of similar episodes about some topical thing that is then simplified and turned into a fact-free slurry and has a crime story made out of it.

It's pretty obvious the scriptwriter and maybe even the showrunners were pushing some bullshit, so they'd be the ones to bitch to. As it is, GG should thank them because the episode was laughably hilarious, well beneath even the usual standards of silliness for L&O shows.

Also, the guy is named Dick Wolf.

He's a literal Dickwolf.

 

[SeattleFaerie]

Also, the guy is named Dick Wolf.

He's a literal Dickwolf.

This is something everyone should remember always.

 

[Strelok]

I still love that people got angry over a show that once had a plot about fake DNA that could destroy the entire judicial system, that by the next episode was never mentioned again.

And that episode was BEFORE the downward spiral. Let that sink in.

 

[KingGeedorah]

He is right though. GG should eat a bag of dicks.

 

[UglyOldJafar]

Didn't this show always push bullshit? I remember their episode about some lesbian movement with a woman called Babs Duffy. Thing felt like a SJW wet dream.

 

[MarineTrainedTard]

Didn't this show always push bullshit? I remember their episode about some lesbian movement with a woman called Babs Duffy. Thing felt like a SJW wet dream.

I vaguely remember that episode and IIRC that character is a lesbian and in charge of an exclusionary lesbian rights movement, but then it turns out she's bisexual and actually has a secret boyfriend which she is afraid will discredit her in the eyes of her own organization.

TBH it actually sounds like it would probably piss SJWs off.

Quite a few of their storylines have been pretty ridiculous.

Oh God, I am the SVU sperg, aren't I?

 

[UglyOldJafar]

I vaguely remember that episode and IIRC that character is a lesbian and in charge of an exclusionary lesbian rights movement, but then it turns out she's bisexual and actually has a secret boyfriend which she is afraid will discredit her in the eyes of her own organization.

TBH it actually sounds like it would probably piss SJWs off.

Quite a few of their storylines have been pretty ridiculous.

Oh God, I am the SVU sperg, aren't I?

I watched too much for my own good myself, so we sit in the same boat. I was just always waiting for the episode where Stabler gets finally killed. Pretty disappointed it did not happen.

 

[HG 400]

I think the most autistic thing about the Twitter mob swarming Ice-T about this episode was the fact that an alarming number of them seemed unaware that (at least on SVU) he's an actor whose job it is to speak words written by other people. He isn't actually a cop and the show isn't real.